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A 3 page consideration of the different views that are in play regarding third world sweat shops. There is considerable contrast between the view that the establishment of these types of businesses benefit those that are ultimately employed in them and the view that sweat shops amount to no more than American businesses taking advantage of cheap labor. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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comes to issues regarding the health of workers, effects on the economy, and the clash of mind-set between Easterners and Westerners. There is even an ongoing argument in the
media and among contemporary philosophers about the relative positives and negatives of sweatshops in third world countries. The New York Times, for example, is just one publication that basically
defends the practice of U.S. Companies establishing themselves in these countries so that they can take advantage of the cheap labor. They contend that these countries, and even the
people who work in these establishments benefit in that the income and taxes provide a much-needed economic boost to some of the most economically deprived areas on earth. Authors
such as William Greider, however, condemn such establishments as sweatshops, stating that they are simply a regression to the insensitivities and cruelty of the industrial revolution (Greider, 1997).
Despite the contrasts in opinion that exists regarding third world sweatshops, their number is rising at an almost exponential rate. This is
occurring in step with, and as a result of, the ever increasing pace of globalization (Greider, 1997). The same factors fueling globalization are prompting the move of many American
factors to locations outside of the U.S. borders. One of these factors in the unionization of American workers. Another factor not often associated with such considerations, however, is
the existence of such international trade agreements as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Laws, agreements and circumstances which are
perceived as encouraging the rampant move of American big business to third world countries have received considerable criticism. Referring to NAFTA specifically, one critic proclaim:
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